Vishal Sharma

Don't Want To Be Your Romeo Because You're No Goddamn Juliet Poem by Vishal Sharma

As the dreams become more crypticand distantYour face fades from memoryAs the conflict becomes a silentsurrenderThe scars darken and turn to greyJanuary has come and gone, A bittermonument in my mindOf all the sunrises I have drawn, Nonecompares to the one I’m reminded ofI’ve laid in the dark praying for dawn, Isit forever night or am I just blindJuly has come and gone, And still youaren’t by my sideWe haven’t spoken in two yearsI think I chased you off for the lasttimeDoes my memory still bring you totearsOr is my absence just too sublimeI find myself staring at the traces ofyour hateOutlines of my failures to make youstayI find myself daring to look at yourlettersEvery word weakens my knees and Istart to swayWhy can’t I forget you, There must bea way